1. Is your total overall materials budget over or under $2.5 million? (over or under 5 million?)
- One library had a materials budget under 2.5 million
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- The rest had budgets of more than 5 million dollars.
2. What percentage of your collection development budget is spent on e-resources?
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4. How are you handling ordering for e-books? Is it done through your monographic ordering unit or through an electronic resources ordering workflow? This was an area where there was no clear cut
- No clear generally accepted method
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- Many ordering packages or
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- any continuation
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- costs through their electronic resource or serials/continuations
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- workflow
- License reviews varied depending on whether the institution had a separate
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- group to handle that responsibility
- General desire to handle single title
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- monograph ordering through
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- established print order process.
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- This depends on having licenses in place so there doesn't have to be title by title license review
- Works for YBP or Coutts/MyiLibrary
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- if
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- title is available through
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- aggregators
- Difficult for selectors to identify continuing costs -
- Tech services redirects order requests - requires advanced staff training/knowledge.
5. Do you have a primary source for your e-books?
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6. Are you currently ordering ebooks through aggregators (e.g. NetLibrary, ebrary, EBL)? Directly from publishers (Wiley, Springer, Elsevier, etc)? Through a book purchasing vendor (e.g. YBP, Coutts)? For
- For the most part one can say that our respondents are doing all three: ordering through aggregators, directly from publishers, and through a book purchasing vendor. Given the fact that those respondents using GOBI for title-by-title searching are typically purchasing a title from either Ebrary, NetLibrary, or EBL, the distinction between an aggregator and a purchasing vendor is cloudy at best. MyiLibrary itself can probably be considered an aggregator and a purchasing vendor simultaneously. How an ebook is obtained is direclty related to how it is made available. For title-by-title acquisition, respondents indicated a preference for odering through a purchasing vendor. If the purchasing vendor offered seveal options with respect to platform or aggregator, an individual respondent might have indicated a favorite, but among all respondents there appeared to be no clear favorite. In general, for title-by-title purchasing, going directly to the publisher was a last resort. On the other hand, respondents readily contacted publishers directly when they were interested in obtaining subject packages of ebooks. OhioStateUniversity's relationship with OhioLINK is a special case.
7. Are you ordering e-book packages, single title e-books, or both?
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14. How in-depth of a license review are you doing for ebook package ordering and individual title ebook ordering? For example, do you try to negotiate interlibrary loan terms? All
- All respondents review e-book licenses at least as carefully as they do for licenses of any other type.
- Some libraries don't do interlibrary loan so that wasn't a concern for them while libraries that do interlibrary loan negotiate that as part of the license agreement.
15. Are you using or have you investigated using eBrary or MyiLibrary to host and deliver locally digitized materials? With
- With the exceptions of very few universities which have already implemented it, most Libraries are currently not interested in pursuing the option of using eBrary or MyiLibrary to host and deliver their locally digitized materials.
- Two libraries have shown some interest in pursuing a more comprehensive solution that will be based more on a regional level.
16. Are you able to get MARC records with all of your e-book orders? Do you batch load? Do you manually catalog? If the vendor is not able to supply MARC records, what do you do? All
- All libraries interviewed try to get MARC records and batch load them whenever possible, but it is often not possible.
- For single title e-books, most libraries will manually catalog.
- There is a mix of cataloging responses to large packages without available records, collection level cataloging, waiting for vendor records, putting print and electronic on the same record, etc.
17. Are you ordering e-audio books, download-to-portable device e-books (e.g. Kindle) or both? With the exceptions of two, most libraries reported that they are
- Most Libraries not ordering
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- audio books (2 libraries were the exception) although demand is expected to rise
- None of the libraries offer download-to-portable e-books.
18. Are your selectors looking at going e-only for new acquisitions, particularly for regular collection development/building (e.g. approval YBP) Responses
- Responses to this question were mixed.
- Three respondents cited space concerns as an impetus for going e-only.
- A few mentioned differences by discipline with the sciences ready to accept e-only more readily than the humanities.
- Others reported that e-only preferences varied with each selector.
- One respondent said that most selectors were uncomfortable with e-only and only now want to use e-books as a second copy.